The Problem Of Aryan Origins
From an Indian Point of View


- Preface to the First Edition
- Forward to the Second Edition
- The Problem Its Indian Implications ~ The Historical Questions Involved
- The Supposed Aryan Invasion
- The Invasion~Theory and the Alleged Aryan~Dravidian Difference
- The Mitanni Documents and Rigvedic India
- The Rigveda and the Harappa Culture Their True Relationship
- Did the Harappa Culture have the spoked Chariot~Wheel of the Aryans
- Pre~Harappan Aryanism and the Rigveda
- The Long Belt of Ancient Aryanism
- Pointers Towards Ultimate Aryan Origins
- The Rigveda's Remote Antiquity and the Rigvedic Maryanni of 1360 B.C
- The Linguistic Argument about the Rigveda's Date
- Wheeler on the Harappa Culture's Destruction by Rigvedic Aryans
- Sri Aurobindo's Symbolic Interpretation of the Rigveda
- Appendix 1. Harappa and the Rigveda's Hariyupiya
- Appendix 2. The Term Armaka in the Rigveda
- Analytic Review of the Chapters
- Index
- A Criticism and a Reply
- The Horse, The Harappa Culture and the Rigveda
- The Aryan Question Again
- Probable Historical Implications of the Archaeological work at Dwaraka
- A General Survey of Asko Parpola's Latest Study
- Index to the Supplements
- Bibliography

Index
Abiratta, 32, 33 Achaemenid emperors, 90, 93 Achaemenid inscriptions, 84 Aditī, 39, 42, 86, 111 Aditya, 39
Afghānistān, 7, 8, 14, 68, 76, 86, 98, 118 Aghnyā, 42
Agni, 39, 40, 41, 42, 46, 86, 114
Agrawal, D.P., 2fn.
Agrawala, V.S., 130fn.
Ahi Vritra, 81
Ahura, 34
Aila outflow, 15, 16
Airiyānam vaējo, 12, 17, 77, 82, 83
Aitareya Brāhmaṇa, 86, 115
Aiyar, R. Swaminatha, 30, 43
Aiyar, T. ParamaŚiva, 81
Ajas, 117
Akkad, 88
Akkadian syllabary, 32
Albright, W.F., 23fn.
Allchin, Bridget and Raymond, 6, 7, 22, 69, 125 Alpine, 20, 68 Altekar, A.S., 93 Ambala, 11 Amri, 46 Amschler, 71, 73 Amurru, 88 anas, 113-114 Anatolia, 89
Anau, 68, 69, 70, 71, 76, 77 AngiRasā Rishis, 79, 80 Anjira, 69, 76 Antonini, C.S., 7 Apaya, 16
Apte, V.M., 41, 42, 46, 103 Archaeological Survey of India, 111
Arctic allusion, 75, 79 Arctic home, 78, 79, 81 Arctic memories, 79, 82 |
Arctic regions, 19, 79 Arne, 72
Artadama, 32, 33
Artamanya, 32
Artasumara, 32, 33
Arthasastra, 86
Aruna, 32, 89
Arunas, 89
Arya, The, i
Arya Varna, 113, 114
Aryan Celts, Germans, Greeks, 18
Aryan immigration, invasion, i, ii, 1-20, 95-106, 121, 130
Aryanism, 1, 51, 58, 69, 76, 77
Aryan origins, i, 2, 77, 82
Aryans, ii, iv, 17, 20, 61
Aryo-Dravidianism, ii
Arzawiya, 32
Ashvins, Aśvinā, 31, 35
Asikni, 126
Askabad, 70
Asura, 110, 111. 116
Atharvaveda, 56, 85, 87, 116
Aurobindo, Sri, i, iii, iv, 18-19, 24-26, 29, 38, 39, 40, 41, 43. 44, 65, 77-83, 104, 106, 107-121, 133
Austria-Hungary, 1
Avesta, 34-35, 77, 82
ayas, āyasi, 37, 104, 119
Babylon, 66 "baga", 35 Bahlika, 12 Balsara.P.P. 17 Baltic region, 1
Balūchistān, 4.5.56.58, 60, 63. 69. 73. 74, 76, 100 Bampur, 5
Basham, A.L., 13, 14, 53 Basu, Arabinda, i. iii Battle of the Ten Kings, 15 |
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Bengal, 25 Bhagwanpura, 5, 98
Bhandarkar, D.R., 87
Bhandarkar, R.G., 35fn., 93
Bhāratas, 126
Bhārata War, 57
Bharati, 38
Biridaswa, 32, 33
Boghaz-keui, 2, 36
Bollensen, 41, 114
Brahma, Brahman, Brahmand, 120
Brāhmaṇas, 108
Brahmavada, i, ii
Brahmavarta, 16
Brahmins, 114
Brihaspati, 81, 104, 121, 133
"bugash", 35
Bull-worship, 38, 42
Burrow, T., 50fn., 130, 131, 132, 133, 135fn. Buxton, 21 Byron, 90
Cairn-burials, 4 Caldwell, Bishop, 30 Cambridge History of India, The, 11 Cappadocia, 89 Casal, 46
Caspian, Caspian Sea, 18, 69, 72, 74, 87 Caucasians, 21 Caucasic, 19
Chayamana (Cāyamāna) Abhyavartin, 122, 126, 128 Central India, 118 Cerebrals, 28, 29 Chadwick, John, 49 Chaemhet, tomb of, 73 Chakravarty, F., 37 Chandra, Moti, 87 Chanhu-dāro, 97 Chatterji, S.K., 11, 20, 21 Chaucer, 90, 91 Chenab, 126 |
Childe, Gordon, 33, 54, 73, 74 Chumuri, 110 Cleator, P.E., 49fn., 92 Comparative Grammar of the Dravidian Languages, 30 Copper hoards, 4 Copper pins, 7
Dabar Kot, 60
Daha, Dahai, Dahya, 115, 116 Daitya, 83
Daivavata (Abhyavartin), 126
Dakshina, 39
Dales, G.R., 4, 57, 96
Danavas, 111
Danu, 111
Dani, A(hmad) H(assan), 7, 13,
98, 100 Danish, 91
Dasa-Dasyus, iv, vi, 25, 109-117, 118, 125, 127, 133 Dasa varna, 113 "Decline of the Harappāns", 4 Dhuni, 110 Dirghatamas, 108 Diti, 111
Doctrine of Brahman, i
Dravidas, Dravidian, Dravidians, ii, 1, 18 30, 43, 44, 45, 50fn., 104, 107, 118, 118, 121
Dravidian cultures, ii
Dravidian Theories, 30fn.
"Dravidaryan", iv
Dravidianism, 51
Dravido-Aryanism, ii
Drishadvati, 16, 62, 64
Druhyus, 15, 126
Duchesne, J. Guillemin, 91
Dusratta (Dasaratha), 34
Dvandva, 31
Dwaraka, v
Dyau, 39
Early India and Pakistan, 4fn. Egypt, 32 |
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Egyptian hieroglyphs, 49 Egyptians, 16 Al-Amarna, 32 Elam, 72 Elamite texts, 88 Equus caballus Linnaeus, 9, 58, 70, 71 Equus caballus pumpelli, 69, 71 Equus onager indicus, 9 Erānvej, 12 Evaya Marut, 45 Eurafrican, 19
Fairservis, Jr., Walter, 7, 8, 10, 52, 53, 60, 69 Fleure, H.J., 58 Finnish scholar(s), 50, 51 Forts, iv
Gandhara Grave Culture, 7-10 Gangetic valley, 5 Gangoly, A.C., 118 Gathas, Gāthic, 2, 32, 84, 90-91, 93
Gaul, 18
Geldner, 103
Geography, Strabo's, 86
German, 90
Ghirshman, R., 73
Ghosh, B.K., 11, 12, 13, 32fn., 90-94, 110 Goel, Sita Ram, iv Gomal, 14 Gomal Valley, 98 Gomatī, 14 Gordon, D.H., 61 Gothic, Gothic Bible, 90, 91 Grassmann, 115 Grave People, The, 99, 100 Griffith, Ralph T.H., 43, 44, 135 Guha, 70
Gujarat, Gujerat, 22, 23, 24 Gumla, 63, 99-101 Gupta times, 86 Harappā, Harappā Culture, Harappān, iv, v, 2, 4-9, 19, 20, 36, 37, 42, |
45-70, 95-106, 121, 125-6, 128-9 Hariyūpiyā, 125, 128-9 "Hatti", 89 Hermes, 74 Herodotus, 93 Hertel, 84
Herzfeld, E., 77, 82, 84 Hillebrandt, 110 Himalaya, 67 Hindu Kush, 85 Hindustan, 24 Hindu, The, i, 23fn., 30fn. Hissar, 7, 8, 68, 76 Historical Geography, 13-15 History of Sanskrit Literature, 38fn., 103, 119 Hittite, Hittite King, Hittites, 2, 32, 88-9, 93 Homeric poems, 18 Horned Deity, 100 Horon, 86
Horse, 7-9, 32, 37, 57-60, 69-77
Hrozny, B., 88
Hunter, G.R., 51fn.
Hymns to the Mystic Fire, 107fn.
Icelandic, 91
Icons, 38, 39
Ha, 38
Ilibisa, 110
Image-worship, 42
Imperial Gazetteer of India, 85
"Incinerary Pot Burial", 59
Indara, 31
Indas, 67
India, 35-6, 78
Indo-Afghan, 24
Indo-Aryan, Indo-Aryans, 21, 30, 32, 35 Indo-European, 19, 21 Indo-Germanic culture, 47 |
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Indo-Iranian, 31-2, 33, 34 Indra, 31, 34, 35, 41, 42, 46, 67, 86, 89, 95, 104, 110, 111, 112, 119, 121, 131, 132, 133 Indra-Agni, 35
Indus Civilisation, 2fn., 31, 49, 54, 61, 70, 102 Indus Valley, 2, 11, 38, 49, 62 Innar, 89
Iron, 37-8, 104, 105
Jackson, 84
Jairazbhoy, R. A., 33fn., 89fn. Jamdat Nasr period, times, 58, 73 Jaxartes, 13, 77 Johnson, Samuel, 91 Joshi, J.P., 9, 37, 49fn.
Kabul, 14 Kalash Kafirs, 86-7 Kalibangan, 46, 49, 63-4, 100 Karpāsa in Prehistoric India: A
Chronological and Cultural Clue, v Kashmir, 87 Kasi, 87
Kassites, 67, 87, 88 Kaswin, 87 Kasyas, 87
Kaushītakī Brāhmaṇa, 44 Kautilya, 86 Kasyapur, 87 Kechi Beg, 68
Keith. A.B., 11, 26, 35, 55, 103, 109, 110, 112, 113, 114, 119, 127 Keith, Sir Arthur, 21 Kennedy, K.A.R., 101-2 Kesis, 87 Ketkar, Mrs. S., 92fn. Khafaje, 58, 73 Khan, F., 13
Khatti-Khattiyo = Kshatriya, 89 |
"Kheta", 89 Khurri-Mitanni, 88
Khuvaruvash, 88
Kikkuli, 2, 32, 33, 86
Kili Ghul Mohammad (KGM), 60, 69, 75 Kish, 73
Konow, Sten, 28-29, 43, 110, 116
Kosambi, D.D., 89fn., 125fn., 128
Kot Diji, 62, 63, 64, 101
Krishna, Sri, v
Krumu, 14
Kshatriya, 89, 114
Kubhā, 14, 85
Kulitara, 110
Kurukshetra, 5, 98
Kushāņas, 87
Lal, B.B., 8, 49fn., 50, 101-2 Langdon, 73 Langhnaj, 22, 23 Linear B script, 49, 92 Lithuanian, 84, 91, 93 Lothal, 20, 24, 46, 52, 53 Loralai, 61 Ludwig, 110 Lundholm, 69, 71
Macdonell, A.A., 26, 37-8, 55, 103, 109, 110, 112, 113, 114, 119, 127, 133 Mackay, E.J.H., 6, 9, 49fn. Madhyadesa, 126 Maghavan, 131, 132, 135fn. MahaBhārata War, 5
Maharashtra, 24 Mahāvailastha, 131, 132, 133 Maho arnas,89 Maikop, 6, 7 Majumdar, Tarapada, iii, v Makran, 105 Manusmriti, 115 Marshall, Sir John, 38 Maruts, 41, 45, 66 Maruttash, 66 |
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Marya, 32 Maryanni, 2, 32, 67, 85-7, 88, 89 Mattiwaza, 31, 86, 87, 88 Meadow, Richard H., 5fn. Mediterranean, Miditerranids, 18, 19, 21, 22, 23 Megasthenes, 86, 103 Mehi, 38
Mesopotamia, 32, 35, 54, 68, 73, 74
Mirza, Hormazdyer K., 83 Mitanni, 2, 31, 32, 84, 85, 88 Mithra, Mithro, 86 "Mithra-Ahura", 34 "Mitra-Asura", 34 "Mitra-Varuṇa", 34 Mitra, 34, 86 Moghul Ghundai, 4 Mohenjo-dāro, 6, 49, 61, 63, 70, 71, 95-7 Mongoloid races, 118 Mookerji, R.K., 14, 15, 86, 111, 127
Müller, Max, 92 Mundigak, 7, 8, 68, 76, 98 Mycenaean syllabary, 49 Mysteries, Orphic and Eleusinian, 107
Nādi-Stuti, 14 Naga-worship, 101 Namyawaza, 32, 33 Naram-Sin, 88, 89 Nasatyas, 34, 35, 86 Natarajan. P., 23fn. Natufians, 22, 23 Nirukta, 108 Nordics, 20 Norse Sagas, 18 North-West Frontier, 63 Northerners, 1
Oldenberg, 110
Old High German, 90 |
Origins of Aryan Speech, The, 26fn.
Orphic and Eleusinian Mysteries, 107 Ouranos, 89 ovis vignei, 59
Oxford History of India, The, 4fn. Oxus, 77
Painted Grey Ware (PGW), 5, 6, 57, 98 Paippalada version, 87 Pali, 89, 103 Pandit, P.B., 50fn. Pānini, 91, 103 Panis, 110, 116, 133 Pānchāla, 15 Pariśishṭa, 44 Parnians, 116 Parpola, Asko, 50fn. Parsis, 16, 17 Paruṣṇī, 126 Passek, 74 Paśupati, 42 Pataliputra, 103, 105 Pazur-Inshushinak, 88 Peake, H., 58 Periano Ghundai, 59-60 Persia, 74 Phillips, E.D., 74 Phoenicians, 16
Piggott, Stuart, 6, 54, 58, 59, 60, 68, 74 Pipru, 110, 111 Piśācha, 85, 116-17 Pischel, 103 Plato, 107 Potter, Simeon, 91 Pottery, 63-4, 68-9 Prakrit, 33
Pre-Harappān, 56, 59, 61, 63, 64, 65, 67, 101, 102 Prehistory and Protohistory of India and Parkistan, 2fn. |
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Prithivi, 39 Prthu-Parśu (Parthians-Persians?), 12
Proto-Aryan, 4, 34, 35 Proto-Dravidian, 50 Proto-Harappān, 101 Przewalski horse, 70, 73 Pumpelly, 69, 71 Punjāb, 14, 15, 16, 17, 61, 62, 85, 118
Pur, purah, iv, 95, 102, 103, 104, 119, 120, 131, 132 Puranas, 15, 16
Pusalker, A.D., 8, 26, 33, 49, 57, 87, 101, 110, 116, 126, 127 Pythagoras, 107
Quetta, 69
Rajasthan, 62, 63
Ramayana, 8, 10
Raksha, 116, 117
Rānā Ghundāī (RG), 58-60, 61, 68, 76 Ranhā, 14
Rao, S.R., 2fn., 9, 51, 53 Rapson, E.J., 10, 11 Rasā, 12, 14
Raychaudhuri, H.C, 46fn., 125m., 129
Red Ware, 68
Rigveda, Rigvedic, Veda, Vedic, Vedism, ii, iv, 1-3, 8, 11, 13-16, 18, 19, 29, 31-47, 55, 56, 61-2, 63-6, 75, 76, 77, 78-82, 84-89, 90-94, 95-6, 98-121, 132
Riks, The Riks,
Roth, 41, 110, 115
Roux, Georges, 31fn., 89fn.
Royal Tombs of Ur, 54
Roychowdhuri, Ajit, iii
Rudra, 41, 43-5 Russian conference, i, iii Sambara, 110 Sandrocottus, 86, 103
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Sanjan, 17
Sankalia, H.D., 2fn., 5, 9, 20, 22, 38, 47, 53, 56, 59, 62-4, 68, 98-100
Sanskrit, iv, 25, 27, 28, 29, 30 Sapta-Sindhu, 17, 55 Sarama, 39
Sarasvati, 12, 15, 16, 38, 39, 62, 64
Sarayu, 15
Sargon, 1, 83
Sarkar, S.S., 21-3, 68, 97
Sastri, K.N., 57
Sastri, S. Srikanta, 16
Satapatha Brāhmaṇa, 87
Saurāshtra, 9, 20, 21, 52
Sayana, 114
Schrader, O., 55
Science, 2fn.
Scientific American, 4fn.
Seal no. 3357, 50-51
Secret of the Veda, The, i, iiifn., 133fn. Semi-Harappān, 101 Semitic Dynasty, 88 Serpent Goddess, 100 Sewell, 70, 71 Shah Tepe, 69, 71-2, 75, 77 Shahi Tump, 5, 6 Shakespeare, 91 Sharma, A.K., 100 Shaw, Bernard, 90 Shelley, i Shimalia, 67 Shiva, Śiva, 41, 43-5 Shubiluliuma, 31 Sialk, 4, 68, 69, 71, 76 Sigrus, 127 Sind, 65, 62, 97 Sistan, 5
Snoy, Peter, 87fn. Soma, 86, 104, 118 |
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Some Aspects of Ancient Indian Culture, 87 Southern India, 1, 24 South Indian Bronzes, 118 . Southerners, 1 Spokes, 55 Spooner, 103
Sri Aurobindo Ashram Trust, iii Sri Ma - Sri Aurobindo Milan Kendra, iii Srinjayas, 126 Sriramadesikan, S. N., 30fn. Strabo, 86 Sudas, 15, 126 Sudra, 114 Suktas, 78 Sunasepa, 86 Surkotada, 9, 36, 49 Sur Jungal, 61 Suriash, 67 Sūrya, 39, 67 Susa, 72, 73 Sushna, 110, 112 Sutkāgen-dor, 105 Suttarna, 32, 33 Suvāstu, 14, 85 Swar, 42, 120, 133 Swardata, 32, 33 Swastika, 49 Swat, 7, 14, 85 Swedish, 92 Syria, 32
Taittirīya Saṁhitā, 44, 116 Tamil, Tamils, 1, 21, 22, 24, 25, 27 Tarpan, 70 Tell Halaf, 54 Tekkolakota, 23 Telugus, 21, 22, 27 Tepe Yahya, 5 Teuton, 18 Thapar, Romila, 50fn. The Harappā Culture and the Rigveda, 56 Thieme, Paul, 33, 35 Tilak, 19, 78, 81, 82, 83 |
Tocharian, 93 Trinity, Indian, 46 Tripolye, Tripolye Culture, 74, 75, 76 triśūla, 42 trislrsan, 46 Tritsus, 126 trivtsna, 42 Tryaruna, 42 Tsarskaya, 6, 7 Turkestan, 1,68,70,72,74,75 Turvasas, 126, 127
Ukraine, 1, 74 Ulfila, 90, 91 Unman-manda, 88 Upanishads, i, 107, 108 Upper Euphrates, 2, 67, 88 Ur-heimat (Cradle-land) , 16 Ur, Standard of, 73
Royal tombs of, 54 Uruwana, 31,89 Usha 16,39,134
Vāhana, 42
vājayanta, 86
Vala, 109, 120, 121, 131, 133
Valahan ("Vala-slayer")* 133 Vailasthāna, Vailasthānaka. 131, 133
Vaishya, 114 Vamadeva, 42, 108 Varasikhas, 128 Varchin, 110, 125, 127 Varin, 87
Varuṇa, 31, 86, 87 Vasishtha, 127
Vats, M.S., 49fn. Vaufrey, 71 Veda, ii
Vedantic philosophy, i Veddas, 21 |
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Veddids, 21, 22, 23 Vedic Aryan, 56
Vedic Index, 55fn., 103, 111, 112,
116, 117, 126 Vendīdād, 35 Venkatesvara, S.K., 41, 44 Ventris, Michael, 49 Verethragan, 34 Verethragna, 34 Views and Reviews
Vritrahan("Vritra-slayer"), 34, 133 Vritraghna, 34
Washburn, S.L., 21
Western Asia, 22, 23
Western historians, 1
Wheeler, Sir Mortimer, 2th., 4, 5, 6, 19, 20, 21, 38, 57, 64, 95, 96, 97, 98, 101, 103, 104, 105, 121, 125, 128, 129 Wheels, spoked, 46-53 |
Wilson, Prof., 41, 43 Winternitz, M., 92 Woolner, A.C., 92 Wiist, W., 46
Xanthos of Lydia, 93
Yajurveda, 13, 14
Yakshus, 127
Yavyāvatī, 126, 128, 129
Yasdata, 32
Yima (= Jamshed), 83
Zarathustra, Zarathustrian, 2, 81, 93 Zeuner, Frederick, 58, 69, 71, 72, 74, 76, 77 Zend, 33 Zeus Ombrios, 86 "Zhob cult", 59 Zhob valley, 59 Zimmer, 126 |
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